Jennifer Love Hewitt

Born: 21st February 1979
Where: Waco, Texas

The actress carved her name into horror movie lore with appearances in the slasher franchise I Know What You Did Last Summer.

She has subsequently departed the genre, with appearances in the action comedy The Tuxedo and kids' caper Garfield.

The daughter of a speech pathologist and a medical technician, her parents divorced when she was six months old.

Hewitt got her breakthrough on the US TV series Party of Five after gaining her first taste of celebrity aged three when she sang at a livestock show.

Six years later she joined the Texas Show Team and performed in the US and Russia, as well as touring the world for LA Gear before she and her mother settled in Hollywood.

Once in LA, Hewitt appeared in more than 20 TV ads, before she was hired on the Disney series Kids Inc, and went through a series of TV flops before finally hitting it big on Party of Five in 1995.

She made her feature film debut in 1992 in the independent film Munchie and went mainstream a year later, appearing in Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit.

The actress solidified her box-office appeal as the lead in the hit thriller I Know What You Did Last Summer, reprising her role for a sequel in 1998.

Jennifer has also released several albums, which have been popular in Japan. Her first American release was 1995's Let's Go Bang.

In 2001, she starred alongside Sigourney Weaver in the enjoyable comedy Heartbreakers and high-kicked opposite Jackie Chan in action comedy The Tuxedo.

If Only saw her playing opposite Paul Nicholls in the romantic comedy and she was the love interest in the live action cat caper Garfield.

She will soon be seen in Brit rom-com The Truth About Love and will perform voicing duties on the cartoon Delgo, with Val Kilmer and Eric Idle.